Hi, When I had my first Debian package accepted (Midori, last year), somehow the source tarball (.orig.tar.bz2) file got changed during the upload by my sponsor. I do not really know what happened (I remember checking everything over and over, and the pristine-tar branch on the repository *is* correct), but now it is time to fix it. After reading the policy and having a brief chat with Paul Tagliamonte on #debian-devel, the apparent solution would be to rename the source tarball. Today, it is named "midori_0.5.11.orig.tar.bz2". My decision was to rename it to "midori_0.5.11~ds1.orig.tar.bz2". I tried doing that, and my upload got rejected again, because "midori_0.5.11~ds1-1 is newer than midori_0.5.11-2" (which is the latest version on testing). This whole mistake made me learn a thing or two about the internals, but now I think it is time to ask for some help. Is there any way I can fix the original problem? How does the source tarball need to be named in order to obey the policy and have the package accepted? It seems to me that I am missing something simple here, but I cannot figure out what it is. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/
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